Shlichim

Group photo of emissaries at the Regional Conference in Miami

OTS Shlichim Gather in Miami for Regional Conference

OTS Shlichim Gather in Miami for Regional Conference Rabbinical and educational emissaries from across North and South America convened in Miami, Florida this week for the annual conference organized by the Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Institutes, part of the

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70 shlichim from OTS's Straus-Amiel/Beren-Amiel came together in Lausanne

A Thousand Words – March 12, 2023

This week, approximately 70 shlichim from OTS’s Straus-Amiel and Beren-Amiel Emissary Training Institute currently serving as rabbis and educators in communities across Europe came together in Lausanne, Switzerland for a three-day regional conference. The conference kicked off with Straus-Amiel and

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A Thousand Words – May 16, 2022

About half a year ago, the Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Institute hung a huge corkboard map of the world on one of the walls of their office, exhibiting all of the Jewish communities across the globe where their 266 educational

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The Haunting Sound of the Shofar

The Haunting Sound of the Shofar Rabbi Ari and Laura Silbermann are shlichim from OTS’s Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Institute, currently serving as Rabbi and Rabbanit of Mizrachi UK in Manchester, England The piercing sound of the shofar is our way of enthroning

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Rabbinical Seminary students

Preparing Jewish Rabbinical Leadership for the Modern World

Preparing Jewish Rabbinical Leadership for the Modern World “Ohr Torah Stone’s rabbinic training is about so much more than learning the halakha,” enthused Aviel Javesky, a student in Ohr Torah Stone’s Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Rabbinical Seminary. “I also learned

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rabbi bentzi and michal mann

Ensuring Jewish Community Growth, Even During a Pandemic

Ensuring Jewish Community Growth, Even During a Pandemic When idealistic, committed young adults embark on the two-year Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Program for rabbinical couples, they cannot possibly imagine all of the challenges they will face building Jewish community throughout the

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